Bret Taylor's new AI company aims to help customers get answers and complete tasks automatically

We've been hearing about former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor's latest gig since he announced he was leaving the CRM giant in November 2022. Last February we heard he was launching an AI startup built with former Google employee Clay Bavor. Today, the two emerged with a new conversational A

FlowFi takes in first funding to give founders insight into financials

FlowFi, a startup creating a marketplace of finance experts for entrepreneurs, closed on $9 million in seed funding. Blumberg Capital led the investment and was joined by a group of investors including Parade Ventures, Differential Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Special Ventures, 14 Peaks Capital an

Seal Security wants to make open source vulnerability remediation easy

Seal Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup founded by a group of former members of Israel’s Unit 8200 intelligence unit, is coming out of stealth today and announcing a $7.4 mlion seed funding round led by Vertex Ventures Israel, with participation from Crew Capital, PayPal Alumni Fund and Cyber

Motif Analytics brings sequence analytics to growth teams

Motif Analytics, a startup specializing in sequence analytics for growth teams, today announced that it has raised a $5.7 mlion seed funding round led by Felicis and Amplify Partners. InvestInData angel group also participated. At its core Motif helps product teams find the patterns in how users in

Bugcrowd snaps up $102M for a ‘bug bounty’ security platform that taps 500K+ hackers

Bugcrowd — the startup that taps into a database of half a million hackers to help organizations like OpenAI and the U.S. government set up and run bug bounty programs, cash rewards to freelancers who can identify bugs and vulnerabilities in their code — has picked up a big cash award o

Bootstrapped for 8 years, Xensam now has snapped up $40M for AI that manages software assets

Software asset management — enterprise IT aiming, in part, to help companies save money — continues to draw a lot of money itself. In the latest development, Xensam, a startup out of Stockholm that provides AI-based tools to help businesses understand and track where and how software is

Arm’s gains are SoftBank’s gains

Not so long ago, things were looking bleak for SoftBank, the investment holding company headed by eclectic — and controversial — tech mogul Masayoshi Son. The Vision Fund, SoftBank’s venture arm, posted a $6.2 billion loss in Q2 2023, tied to WeWork and other unfortunate bets. But

AI is going to save software companies’ dreams of growth

It appears emerging price points for AI-powered software products will boost the total addressable market (TAM) for technology products and help reaccelerate growth at tech companies big and small. In late 2023, Battery Ventures noted that the pullback of revenue growth at software startups had rea

Crux is building GenAI-powered business intelligence tools

GenAI might be one of the most exciting technologies today. But it’s also one of the fastest-moving — posing a challenge for enterprises keen to deploy it. With each new GenAI innovation, companies have to worry not only about staying on top of trends but validating what’s working

Accounting software startup Pennylane becomes France's latest unicorn

Just like clockwork, Pennylane is raising another €40 million ($43 million at today's exchange rate). This new funding round comes after the accounting startup raised €4 million in 2020, €15 million in 2021, another €15 million in 2021 again, €50 million in 2022 and €30 million in 2

Endpoint security startup NinjaOne lands $231.5M at $1.9B valuation

Just two years ago, VC funding to cybersecurity startups was on fire. Indeed, $23 billion flooded the sector, per Crunchbase. But in 2023, cybersecurity upstarts only saw a third of that — the result of the exceptional surge in 2021, bloated valuations and investors wary of market instability

Goodshuffle dances into 2024 with $5M for event rental management software

Goodshuffle, building software for the event rental and production industry, raised $5 million in a round of Series A funding from FINTOP Capital. The global pandemic “wiped out much of the events industry,” CEO Andrew Garcia told technewss. However, Goodshuffle's user base — made up of

Entrust is buying AI-based ID verification startup Onfido, sources say for $650M

Onfido, an early mover in the world of identity verification using computer vision, machine learning and other AI tools, is getting acquired, technewss has learned and confirmed. Entrust — the privately-held company that provides a range of certification and verification services around paym

Apple brings enterprise device management to the Vision Pro

It's been hard to avoid news about the Apple Vision Pro, the company's entry into the virtual reality market, in recent days. It was officially released on Friday to much fanfare, but how will it fare in the enterprise? It's way too early to say, but the company is doing everything poss